Now that the threat of Manbearpig has ended we stand before an even larger threat.
We better call Al Gore. Moonbearking is coming..
We better call Al Gore. Moonbearking is coming..
"I'm ebolakin. You can refer to me as Ebola-Chan." - Vurtax
"I also am Otherkin. Whenever autumn rolls around I can feel my kin-type slowly taking over my body. You must know, I identify as pumpkin. I can control it pretty good most of the time, but when September ends, I just cant hold it in anymore. Whenever Im outside I see my brothers and sisters being chopped into soup, coffee, donuts, cake, drinks, bread - ppl even cut human faces into their skin, making a mockery out of their noble appearance. When I see things like that I cant control my pumpkin urges anymore. My natural instincts kick in. I then sit down motionless, while getting bright orange." - Morgana L
"I also am Otherkin. Whenever autumn rolls around I can feel my kin-type slowly taking over my body. You must know, I identify as pumpkin. I can control it pretty good most of the time, but when September ends, I just cant hold it in anymore. Whenever Im outside I see my brothers and sisters being chopped into soup, coffee, donuts, cake, drinks, bread - ppl even cut human faces into their skin, making a mockery out of their noble appearance. When I see things like that I cant control my pumpkin urges anymore. My natural instincts kick in. I then sit down motionless, while getting bright orange." - Morgana L
Bioalchemist wrote:
Al gore is my hero and the leader of all scientific development as you know.
Are you like.... serious..?
Ty MM and Blood for the sigs :3 | Rammus is comming back - heard it here first!
"Carrying"-guide | My reviewservice
"Carrying"-guide | My reviewservice
I really think anyone who makes an issue out of genders in video games, movies, or books really has no point strong enough to listen to. The artist creates the story, and if in their head the main character is a boy then shut up and play as a boy, or vice versa. And why would you play as peach in every Mario game? It seems like feminists are trying harder and harder to convince the world that they aren't worth listening to.
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M: No.
I: There has been a lot of talk lately about options, about gender, about the video games, soâŚ
M: Well, you know, I did have a massive argument actually. We do mock reviews where we send it out to a service, right? Where they review the game for us. Itâs not a real review.
I: Yeah, I know mock reviews.
M: And they tell us all the things, all the positives and negatives what they think, right? And they were telling me âOh yeah, well itâs just a boy. Well it should be a girlâ and itâs like, well no actually, look. I made the story. You donât get to change Master Chief into a girl, do you? Doesnât happen, right? And in Killzone Iâm sure youâre not playing a woman, right? And, you know, in a fighting game, yes there are women characters and there are men characters but I think youâll find that a lot of girls play the men characters and a lot of the guys play the female characters. So I donât think it really matters. And in⌠and they were saying, âwell Puppeteer, itâs so sexistâ. And I was like âPuppeteer is not sexistâ. The women in Puppeteer are really strong. You know, the witch and you know Pikarina theâŚ
I: Fairy.
M: Fairy character. And thatâs not her true stage. Sheâs been transformed into that by the Moonbearking. Theyâre really strong, all the women you meet in the game are. And so I had a big argument with them and said, well they didnât know what they were talking about basically. Why do we want girls to play girls and why do we want boys to play boys? Itâs just a story and itâs just something that we should do. So I should as a game creator start pandering to public opinion? Over what is correct? As soon as we start doing that we end up like America, we wonât be able to say anything ever again and it all be very PC and like⌠You know, to me, I grew up under a very strong mom.
I: Me too.
M: Right? So I know what women are all about. So women are strong and theyâre not⌠So I should have made a little pink Kutaro, for girls to play?
I: No, we donât have to exaggerate. I mean just, just a female. It doesnât have to be pink. Kutaro doesnât have to be red or blue or something. We donât have to go that far. Just like, an option, just to have it there to maybe⌠It would cheapen your vision, I think, just-
M: I do too.
I: Because of all the chatter we have lately. Even Miyamoto gets the question. I mean heâs Miyamoto. Nobody would have questioned him (about) anything and now people are asking âWhy isnât Peach playable in every single Mario game?â So now I think we are at the stage right now with all this outcry we had on Twitter and all that FemFrequency and all that stuff that, as developer you have to answer the question. And, even if you donât-
M: Like it? One way or the other? I donât think we should do it.
I: Iâm not saying you have to do it.
M: No no no, Iâm not saying⌠In my opinion I donât think we should. I think we should be making what we want to make and if somebody is upset by that than please donât buy the product. (I donât mean that) personally. As I said here, I grew up under strong women, I know how the women are strong and I love women, I think they are wonderful, but, Iâm not going to change my creative vision over something because somebody tells me that thatâs whatâs important now. Because I donât think thatâs important. I tested this game with kids. Girls and boys. Not one of them has mentioned it. Not one of them cares. Now all of them had fun.
I: I feel like you donât care. You donât care (that Kutaro is) a boy, because itâs just the player.
M: Exactly. Itâs exactly, thatâs what it is. I mean, he doesnât even speak. He has no personality. Itâs just you. You just impose your personality on him and play as you. I mean youâre controlling him on the theatre on the stage, thatâs what youâre doing.
I: Well, you know, we have this discussion right now-
M: Yes, interesting. Interesting. You see, Iâm out in Japan and so I never hear any of this.
I: No? Is there no discussion whatsoever?
M: No discussion whatsoever. Nobody would even ask.
I: That sounds incredibly sexist from a western perspective.
M: It does, but from their perspective itâs like âWhat would the point be? Why would you even care if the character is male or female?â I mean they play around with very strong female characters, you know, looking at Bayonetta and all those sort of things.
I: Like Gravity Rush.
M: Right, Gravity Rush by Toyama-san, right? So, itâs just the character.
I: Itâs a non-issue there.
M: Yeah.
I: Dou you feel like this could become an issue sometime, or are the cultural-
M: Never.
I: Never?
M: Never will they care. You think they have more to worry about with the nuclear meltdown and the chance of another earth quake and I donât thinkâŚ.
I: YeahâŚ
frankly i can't agree more with moore.